ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pseudoarchaeology, Rosetta Stone, Historical Archaeology
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Ant 200 lecture 3: archaeology and antiquarianism lecture. Archaeology is important o remember only 150 years ago most people thought the earth was only a few thousand years old. Archaeology; the study if the human past though material remains with the aim of ordering and describing the events of the past ad explaining their meaning. Jens worsaae- stratigraphy: stone age, bronze age, iron age. Both of them became curators of national museum of denmark. They found this three age system throughout europe not just in denmark. Charles darwin- continues to be a polarizing figure. Survival of the fittest was not made by darwin. Unilinear cultural evolution: lewis morgan natural progression of human societies: savagery barbarism and civilization (europe), chine and india were also considered civilization but nothing else. We believe in multilinear cultural evolution: conditioned by natural settings, interacting societies, as well as own traditions.
